Re: Aw: RE: s390x buildd machines

Hi,

On 2/17/26 2:24 PM, Sarah Julia Kriesch wrote:
> These machines are in IBM hands and are maintained in the LinuxONE OSS Community Cloud.
> Ulrich Weigand did this decision 2 years ago

I don't think this is accurate? As Sebastiaan linked to db.d.o: One 
machine is hosted with the German ITZBund and the second machine is 
hosted with Marist, which as far as I know is distinct from the 
Community Cloud. If I recall correctly, the Community Cloud did not 
cater well to the kinds of permanent machine leases and required regular 
renewal.

Speaking with my autobuilding and sysadmin hats: I think it'd be good to 
have a third place to host a buildd. We are relying on sponsors and it 
has become increasingly difficult for them on other architectures to 
keep providing service to us. This has not hit s390x yet. But it always 
had a concern marked on [1] about exactly this situation. A third 
location would ameliorate at least some of the concerns we have.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

[1] https://release.debian.org/testing/arch_qualify.html